"Evangelicals Hate Stormy Daniels But Love Trump. Here's Why "
"What are some ways you see these gendered dynamics playing out in evangelical spaces?
The classic example — and this is such a cliche that we in evangelical spaces often joke about it — but you have the insecure youth pastor who’s getting up in front of the church or getting up in front of his students and says, 'Hey, at the back, check out my smokin’ hot wife, Tiffany,' or whatever. And it’s almost inviting you to imagine him having sex with this woman. And that is an example of what I’m talking about, that a Christian man, a leader, would be the one who gets to have sex with hot ladies. And that is a benefit of being the kind of man that God wants you to be.
One response that we’ve seen in evangelical spaces is the phenomenon of the 'tradwife.' So the tradwife movement, you see social-media influencers embracing this idea of Godly femininity. And they’re going whole hog into this — baking bread and sewing clothes and really leaning into this identity of, 'My man is the strong man, and he is the leader of our home. And even though I’m a social media influencer who is now making YouTube videos making money from that, let me just stress that I am a submissive wife and he is the strong, masculine husband who leads our home and our house spiritually.'”
~ Dylon Jones
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